mushroom production

This is a comprehensive course aimed at those hoping to enter the mushroom production industry or for keen amateurs of mushroom culture.

This course is unique and has been evolving over 20 years with a serious revision every 1 to 2 years, since it was first developed.

The most commonly grown mushroom worldwide is Agaricus (The Champignon) and for that reason, the course concentrates on this type of mushroom.

Other commercially grown mushrooms are reviewed in most lessons as well, in order to give the student a broad understanding of how to cultivate all types of commercial fungi. These include: Auricularia auricula, Coprinus Fimetarius, Flammulina velutipes, Lentinus edodes, Pleurotus ostreatus, Stropharia rugoso-annulata, Volvariella volvacea.

As the student develops this foundation in understanding fungal growth and commercial techniques their capacity to grow any type of edible fungi will increase.

This course improves your ability to grow mushrooms on either a small or large scale and both broadens and deepens your knowledge of growing, harvesting, marketing, storage, pest and diseases and even ways of cooking and using mushrooms.

As with all our courses, study papers are provided on a CD, in total involving approximately 100 hours of work. The course is divided into 8 lessons with an assignment set at the end of each. These are sent to the Academy for marking and are returned to you with comments and suggestions.

You will be working with Colin Elliott, an experienced professional horticulturist and garden designer.